The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications, as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.
Topics: Analytics, Digital Technology, digital business
The topic of artificial intelligence using machine learning (AI/ML) used to conjure up images of PhDs in white lab coats using massive computers to solve arcane problems, but today’s technology is packaged to be used effectively by those not trained in data science to address daily chores more efficiently. AI will be valuable to finance departments in five general areas: forecasting and planning, analytics, task supervision, recommendations and automated commentary. Although the payoff from throwing massive brain power at solving difficult problems can be significant, AI also has the potential to create value by automating repetitive processes or augmenting human involvement to gain efficiency while improving performance.
Topics: Office of Finance, Analytics, Business Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, AI and Machine Learning, digital finance
The 15th annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Awards showcase professional leadership and their use of business applications or technology that led to improved organizational efficiency, productivity and performance. These leaders and pioneers have contributed to their organization’s success and championed improvements across people, processes, information and technology.
Topics: Analytics, Digital Technology, digital business
The 15th annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Digital Leadership Awards showcase professional leadership and their use of business applications or technology that contribute significantly to improved efficiency, productivity and the performance of their organization. These leaders and pioneers have contributed to their organization’s success and championed improvements across people, processes, information and technology.
Topics: Analytics, Digital Technology, digital business
Data is moving to the cloud. And as cloud applications are adopted, it means that many critical sources of data for analytics now, or soon will, live in the cloud. In fact, nearly nine in 10 participants in our research (89%) reported that they plan to use cloud-based analytics deployments, and the overwhelming majority of organizations (86%) expect that most of their data will eventually be in the cloud. But, as organizations look to embed analytics and reporting into their applications, they face many hurdles including high infrastructure costs, lack of domain-specific expertise and roadblocks that appear when scaling.
Topics: embedded analytics, Analytics, Business Intelligence, natural language processing, AI and Machine Learning, Streaming Analytics
With the increasing exodus from on-premises solutions, organizations are migrating towards cloud computing for data analytics. Cloud computing supports rapid growth, collaborative analysis and real-time insights without requiring large capital investments in IT infrastructure. A cloud-based approach to analytics can help organizations be more agile and responsive to opportunities in the market.
Topics: cloud analytics, Analytics, Business Intelligence, AI & Machine Learning
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
Topics: business intelligence, Analytics, Digital Technology, Digital Innovation Awards, Analytics & Data
Historically, it’s been difficult to convince chief financial officers to invest in technology that makes it easier to spend money. That’s probably because before digital technologies, the natural impediments to spending stood as crude but effective strategies for fiscal control. Today, however, not using technology to streamline corporate spend actually increases costs and decreases control. The right software can increase efficiency and visibility into how money is spent, provide always-vigilant automated supervision, and enforce process conformity. Increasingly, artificial intelligence is providing finance and accounting with the means to improve spend-related processes.
Topics: Office of Finance, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Planning, Financial Performance Management, Process Mining, Streaming Analytics, AI & Machine Learning
The annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Digital Leadership Awards showcase the professional leadership and their use of business applications or technology that contribute significantly to improved efficiency, productivity and the performance of their organization. This prestigious award recognizes leaders and pioneers who have contributed to their organization’s success and championed improvements across their people, processes, information and technology.
Topics: Performance Management, Sales, Customer Experience, Human Capital Management, Marketing, Marketing Performance Management, Office of Finance, Voice of the Customer, Continuous Planning, Business Continuity, Learning Management, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Integration, Internet of Things, Business Planning, Contact Center, Data, Product Information Management, Sales Performance Management, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Financial Performance Management, Digital Technology, Digital Marketing, Digital Commerce, Operations & Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning, Total Compensation Management, Continuous Payroll, Field Service, Process Mining, Streaming Analytics, Conversational Marketing, Digital Experience Platform, AI & Machine Learning, Experience Management, Digital Communications, Analytics & Data
The annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Digital Leadership Awards showcase the professional leadership and their use of business applications or technology that contribute significantly to improved efficiency, productivity and the performance of their organization. This prestigious award recognizes leaders and pioneers who have contributed to their organization’s success and championed improvements across their people, processes, information and technology.
Topics: Performance Management, Sales, Customer Experience, Human Capital Management, Marketing, Marketing Performance Management, Office of Finance, Voice of the Customer, Continuous Planning, Business Continuity, Learning Management, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Integration, Internet of Things, Business Planning, Contact Center, Data, Product Information Management, Sales Performance Management, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Financial Performance Management, Digital Technology, Digital Marketing, Digital Commerce, Operations & Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning, Total Compensation Management, Continuous Payroll, Field Service, Process Mining, Streaming Analytics, Conversational Marketing, Digital Experience Platform, AI & Machine Learning, Experience Management, Digital Communications, Analytics & Data
The annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Digital Leadership Awards showcase the professional leadership and their use of business applications or technology that contribute significantly to improved efficiency, productivity and the performance of their organization. This prestigious award recognizes leaders and pioneers who have contributed to their organization’s success and championed improvements across their people, processes, information and technology.
Topics: Performance Management, Sales, Customer Experience, Human Capital Management, Marketing, Marketing Performance Management, Office of Finance, Voice of the Customer, Continuous Planning, Business Continuity, Learning Management, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Integration, Internet of Things, Business Planning, Contact Center, Data, Product Information Management, Sales Performance Management, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Financial Performance Management, Digital Technology, Digital Marketing, Digital Commerce, Operations & Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning, Total Compensation Management, Continuous Payroll, Field Service, Process Mining, Streaming Analytics, Conversational Marketing, Digital Experience Platform, AI & Machine Learning, Experience Management, Digital Communications, Analytics & Data
The annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Digital Leadership Awards showcase the professional leadership and their use of business applications or technology that contribute significantly to improved efficiency, productivity and the performance of their organization. This prestigious award recognizes leaders and pioneers who have contributed to their organization’s success and championed improvements across their people, processes, information and technology.
Topics: Performance Management, Sales, Customer Experience, Human Capital Management, Marketing, Marketing Performance Management, Office of Finance, Voice of the Customer, Continuous Planning, Business Continuity, Learning Management, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Integration, Internet of Things, Business Planning, Contact Center, Data, Product Information Management, Sales Performance Management, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Financial Performance Management, Digital Technology, Digital Marketing, Digital Commerce, Operations & Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning, Total Compensation Management, Continuous Payroll, Field Service, Process Mining, Streaming Analytics, Conversational Marketing, Digital Experience Platform, AI & Machine Learning, Experience Management, Digital Communications, Analytics & Data
A digital finance and accounting organization is one that uses software to enhance efficiency by eliminating manual operations and automating workflows, improving financial data quality. This is especially relevant to small to midsize organizations that need to minimize administrative overhead yet still have financial controls and operational visibility to achieve and sustain profitable growth. A continuous accounting approach can streamline tasks and processes, reducing time spent on repetitive tasks, ensuring data quality and providing a focus on financial outcomes and business performance.
Topics: Office of Finance, Analytics, Digital Technology, AI and Machine Learning, digital finance
With more and more data available to analyze, organizations are realizing the value that sophisticated analyses using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) can provide. The benefits of these analyses are significant: our Dynamic Insights research on machine learning finds that organizations most often benefit through competitive advantage, but also improved customer experiences, increased sales, the ability to respond quickly to opportunities in the market, and lower costs. However, the need for specialized skills to deploy AI/ML models can stall data science initiatives. An organization’s efforts to scale data science and apply models are often complicated by a lack of self-service access to infrastructure, tools and data.
Topics: business intelligence, Analytics, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data, Business, Digital Technology, AI and Machine Learning
Business improvement stems from technology investments that advance automation and apply intelligence to your work and processes, increasing the potential achievement of desired outcomes. Assessing vendors and utilizing technology for optimization and innovation is the foundation for digital transformation, and our chief research officer asserts that by 2025, over one-half of organizations will determine that the chaos of digital technology usage requires a rationalization of vendors to ensure operational excellence.
Topics: Customer Experience, Human Capital Management, Marketing, Office of Finance, Analytics, Data, Digital Technology, Operations & Supply Chain, digital business, Office of Sales
The artificial intelligence industry is unique in that it has evolved to the point of making dramatic impacts across other markets. AI is used to help businesses scale, improve customer experiences, decrease waste and streamline cumbersome tasks. Ventana Research sees the need for AI innovation for the future of technology and the many other industries it influences, but making such tools available to everyone at fairly low costs can be difficult. It is no surprise that nearly two-thirds (62%) of organizations report using machine learning today, and nearly three-quarters (72%) of organizations participating in our research say they plan to increase ML use.
Topics: Analytics, Cloud Computing, Digital Technology, natural language processing, AI and Machine Learning
When you think about it, events are at the very core of computing, right down to the simplest if-then operation in a spreadsheet. Each event leads to a set of choices, often binary, which then become events in themselves. As computing has become more ubiquitous and has developed into the architecture upon which all business and commerce runs, the events themselves have become more consequential and more numerous. There’s still an event, and each "if" still leads to a "then," but now we evaluate at enterprise scale.
Topics: Analytics, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Data, Digital Technology, AI and Machine Learning, Streaming Data, Streaming Analytics